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“You want to know if they’re the mittens I wore to Biden’s inauguration. That’s all anyone wants to talk about these days: mittens, mittens, mittens.”

Feel the Bern by Andrew Shaffer

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CBR15 Passport Challenge: Books from different countries #1 When Crash, a new intern working for Bernie Sanders, accompanies her boss up to a small-town festival in Vermont, the last thing she expects is to discover a dead body – or that Bernie will insist on trying to solve the mystery. A few years ago I read Hope Never Dies, a comic mystery where Obama and Biden team up in the post-2016 election season to uncover the truth behind an Amtrak conductor’s death. Now Shaffer has […]

Not as funny as it thinks it is, but not terrible, either.

Kill the Farm Boy (The Tales of Pell, #1) by Kevin Hearne & Delilah S. Dawson

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I was hoping to like this a lot more than I did. And because I’m probably going to Review Amnesty the third book in this series, which I read in November for a book club meeting I didn’t end up attending, this review will also touch on that one a little and the series as a whole. Which is not as funny as it thinks it is. I like the idea of taking traditional fantasy tropes and structuring a book so as to poke fun […]

A must read for anyone who doesn’t want their cat’s soul poisoned by the liberal media

How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety by Zachary Auburn

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Reading How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety is a lot like reading an article in the Onion. You get a few chuckles out of the content, but the biggest joke is the headline. Of course, How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety also includes photos of cats being cute and doing ridiculous things like cleaning their rifle or wearing a sombrero, so that’s a big plus! I’m sure the astute readers of this site will realize right away that this […]

“Cinema helps us to remember that although we all have the right to shine, some of us must shine in the background, out of focus, and not too brightly.”

Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade

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Finally, a book about the greatest film of our generation! What film, you may ask? What film does Richard Ayoade venerate, dissect, cling to, and live for? Richard Ayoade; the author of several books on film, director and writer of several films, host of a delightful travel show, and beloved cast member/co-creator of Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace (and many other things) has written an entire book about the forgettable 2003 Gwenyth Paltrow rom-com View From the Top. Yes, View From the Top; the movie where Mike Myers […]

Just as hilarious as the first outing by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne

No Country for Old Gnomes: The Tales of Pell by Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne

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Last year Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne released, and I reviewed, Kill the Farm Boy: The Tales of Pell.  It was a hysterical twisting of fantasy tropes that had my husband and I literally laughing out loud while reading.  This year they put out another book set in Pell, No Country for Old Gnomes.  The nifty thing about these two books is they are standalone.  You do not need to have read Kill the Farm Boy to read No Country for Old Gnomes, this is not […]

More Puns, Less Poop Please

Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne

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If you like potty humor, read this. You can’t go 2 pages without poop. On rare occasion peeing or farting might be substituted. This novel is basically a parody of the Princess Bride, except that Wesley or rather Worstley (brother of Bestley) gets pancaked by an Amazonian-like warrior who really likes rose gardening named Fia. She falls on him and for once the realistic thing happens even though Worstley may be the Chosen One thanks to Staph the Pixie. But since there is magic in […]



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